Film is a half-day studio combined with Photography to offer students an expanded opportunity to experiment with image-making across both lens-based mediums. Students will spend half the day working on projects focusing on photography, with workshops in analog black and white, digital, and experimental processes. The photography studio is led by Bec Imrich, an artist, writer, and educator who teaches at UC Berkeley and CCA. Their interdisciplinary practice is grounded in photography, sculpture, and drawing. In the afternoons students work both independently and collaboratively in the film studio to further develop their documentary, narrative, overall creative approaches to film production, writing, and storytelling through moving images. The film studio is led by Joseph Graham, film maker, writer, producer, and senior adjunct faculty in the undergraduate and graduate film programs at CCA.

CCA has long been in the vanguard of the media arts. In this introduction to filmmaking, modern cinema, and digital art, you experience the immediacy and flexibility of the vast hybrid medium of film. You work within multiple genres, such as documentary and narrative fiction, compiling a well-rounded, professional video reel.

Working with film language, digital cameras, lighting, sound recorders, scriptwriting, and Adobe Premiere, you immerse yourself in the conceptual and technical fundamentals of narrative and non-narrative filmmaking.

Screenings, critiques, and research are used in the class to inform individual and collaborative projects.

You gain inspiration as you develop your own voice as artist and filmmaker.

A highlight of the class is access to digital classroom facilities, editing suites, and the Carmen M. Christensen Production Stage on CCA's San Francisco campus, where students make a short film, or film-scripted scenes, using the green screen setup.

Film is a half-day studio combined with Photography.

Pre-College 2024 application opens September 15, 2023.